Title :
Quantification of soil material content in vegetated areas by remote sensing
Author :
Kumita, Keiichi ; Yoshie, Takashi ; Kohno, Itoshi ; Saito, Genya
Author_Institution :
Nikko Exploration & Dev. Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
The authors have developed a new data-analysis method for estimating vegetation cover rate and for quantifying the content of soil material content on the basis of a new optical model-“the iso-grain model”. This method has been applied to a part of the Helvetia region, Arizona, USA, by using airborne remote sensing data. Both the vegetation cover rate and the material composition obtained by this method agreed well with field survey data
Keywords :
geology; geophysical techniques; remote sensing; soil; Arizona; Helvetia; USA; United States; data-analysis method; geology; geophysical measurement technique; iso-grain model; isograin; land surface vegetation mapping; mineralogy; optical model; quantifying; remote sensing; soil material content; vegetated area; vegetation cover rate; visible method; Composite materials; Grain size; Inorganic materials; Nonlinear equations; Optical materials; Optical mixing; Reflectivity; Remote sensing; Soil; Vegetation mapping;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1993. IGARSS '93. Better Understanding of Earth Environment., International
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1240-6
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322502
